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Book Review Joseph Heller Catch 22 And Closing Time

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 21 Feb 19

Simon & Schuster, 1961 and 1994.- Spoiler alerts Catch 22 My favourite novel ever. The story of Yossarian’s efforts to get himself out of the U.S. air force during WW2 is one of the sharpest, most savage satires of our age....

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Review: Science Fiction: "2 B R 0 2 B" by Kurt Vonnegut

Siduri @msiduri (5687) • United States 27 May 17

“Everything was perfectly swell,” the reader is told. Disease, poverty, slums, wars, insane asylums, disability (author Kurt Vonnegut uses the then approved of word “cripples”), and prisons are all things of the past. Death,...

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Favorite Authors?

Siduri @msiduri (5687) • United States 18 Nov 15

Another no luck with author days. Lots of interesting people. Came close to finding a freebie story to read. This is tougher than I thought it was going to be. Try again tomorrow. In the meantime, who are your favorite...

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Constant genuis?

Icarusnow @Icarusnow (1) • Canada 19 Oct 09

AFter reading this book, which i found much more enlightening than any reliqious texts i've ever read it hit me. Was Constant a genuis who stumbles opon the secert of life....is the code waiting for us?

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gilandroit @gilandroit (4) • United States 11 Jul 09

Kurt Vonneguts "The Breakfast of Champions" is probably my favorite book of all time, and possibly the best book ever written. I was so taken by it, that I read it three times in a row, it's smart, funny, ironic, and...

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